On WFAN: Knoblauch Talks PEDs, Says You Still Have To Make Contact

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NEW YORK (WFAN) — Former New York Yankees second baseman Chuck Knoblauch says baseball’s Steroids Era really wasn’t as bad as the narrative might suggest.

Players weren’t throwing around performance-enhancing drugs willy-nilly in the clubhouse. In fact, Knoblauch says he never saw anybody doing anything, despite being an HGH user himself at the tail end of his career.

“It wasn’t like it’s being characterized,” Knoblauch told WFAN’s Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts on Wednesday. “If somebody was doing something, it was definitely behind the scenes. I can only talk about my own experience and I didn’t see that. If people were doing it, it was hidden, it was on their own agenda or whatever.

“But it’s kind of a shame that it’s labeled that way because there was a lot of good baseball played.”

“My personal experience, I didn’t ever see it,” Knoblauch said. “I didn’t know anything about any other guys. I’ve been through it, I testified in front of a grand jury for the Roger Clemens trial, and I didn’t know anything about anybody, which was a great thing for me.”

Knoblauch reiterated that PEDs “didn’t help me at all.” He hit a then-career-low .250 in 2001 with the Yankees, and followed that up with what turned out to be an actual career-low .210 with the Kansas City Royals.

He retired after the 2002 season.

“I don’t think any performance-enhancing drug or steroid or anything like that can actually help you hit the baseball,” he said. “You’ve still gotta hit it.”